Booklets and other resources for bereaved parents

This leaflet published by the HSE explores the issues which arise when parents grieve the death of their child.

Books on parental grief

Love after Death
by Catherine Seigal

ISBN: 9781785923265

Publication Date: 2017-08-21

For bereaved parents the development of a continuing bond with the child who has died is a key element in their grieving and in how they manage the future. Using her experience of working in a children's hospital as a counsellor with bereaved parents, Catherine Seigal looks at how continuing bonds are formed, what facilitates and sustains them and what can undermine them. She reflects on what she learned about the counsellor's role supporting parents in extremely distressing situations. Using the words and experiences of bereaved parents, and drawing on current theories of continuing bonds, the book is relevant to both professionals and parents.

Beyond Tears
by Ellen Mitchell

ISBN: 031232829X

Publication Date: 2005-02-01

The death of a child is that unimaginable loss no parent ever expects to face. In "Beyond Tears, " nine mothers share their individual stories of how to survive in the darkest hour. They candidly share with other bereaved parents what to expect in the first year and long beyond.

The Bereaved Parent
by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff; Harriet S. Schiff

ISBN: 0140050434

Publication Date: 1978-11-30

Practical supportive advice for bereaved parents and the professionals who work with them, based on the experiences of psychiatric and religious counselors.

The Death of a Child
by Peter Stanford (Editor)

ISBN: 1441183035

Publication Date: 2011-07-28

The death of a child is seldom discussed. This is for those who experience such tragedies, the shock and the loss. The Death of a Child is a collection of a dozen essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
by Deborah L. Davis

ISBN: 1555913024

Publication Date: 1996-02-01

Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.